Installing grub-0.96-r2 creates an error becuase help2man-1.33.1 depends on perl module Local::gettext emerge info follows: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups dba dri eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sse ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml xmms xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Actually, I should have said that help2man has the problem, my mistake.
DEPEND="dev-lang/perl nls? ( dev-perl/Locale-gettext >=sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r1 )" Looks like you need to run perl-cleaner.
*** Bug 590314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***